While Charlie Stross's ebook _Rule 34_ is available from Amazon and B&N in various secure DRM formats, I asked Charlie for an etext, since I can read that on my BookSense accessible ebook reader. Like mos writers/editors, he had a not-quite-final doc which he sent to me, so no formatting. Bookshare.org and the NLS often have etexts with some level of Daisy formatting, which is applied by running a RTF format version of the text through a number of apps, scripts, whatever, that Bookshare has developed. You can find other Daisy conversion tools on the Net, and they are usually inended to be integrated into MS Word (here are enough blind Mac users now hat there is probably a version for the Mac somewhere).
While the resultant etexs offer some level of Daisy formatting, it varies widely. Sometimes I can move through the book by chapter, and frequently all I can do is move to the beginning or the end, or through by an independent increment, such as a page (Bookshare does insist on preserving page breaks). However, Bookshare doesn't adhere to the most recent versions of Daisy which allow for a significantly increased amount of navigational options. I don't really set up Jaws to tell me about italics, or other special fonts, I just tend to plow through, and if a bit sounds confusing, I will use the Jaws keyboard command to determine the font of a word or character, and what punctuation is involved. Even if the formatting is there, however, few, if any, of the accessible ebook readers can access this information. My BookSense doesn't even say if a letter is an upper or lower case, let alone if it is italic.
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While the resultant etexs offer some level of Daisy formatting, it varies widely. Sometimes I can move through the book by chapter, and frequently all I can do is move to the beginning or the end, or through by an independent increment, such as a page (Bookshare does insist on preserving page breaks). However, Bookshare doesn't adhere to the most recent versions of Daisy which allow for a significantly increased amount of navigational options.
I don't really set up Jaws to tell me about italics, or other special fonts, I just tend to plow through, and if a bit sounds confusing, I will use the Jaws keyboard command to determine the font of a word or character, and what punctuation is involved.
Even if the formatting is there, however, few, if any, of the accessible ebook readers can access this information. My BookSense doesn't even say if a letter is an upper or lower case, let alone if it is italic.